Finance

Using Google Search Trends to Predict Initial Jobless Claims

For several years now, my focus has been on using alternative data of many kinds to predict macroeconomic statistics. When ran...
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How Hedge Funds Are Profiting From Your Data

The Full Extent of How Your Personal Data is Being (Mis)used You are going to the supermarket for groceries; on your...
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Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt

There is a global crisis going on as I write this article. It’s not the first, it won’t be the last....
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If Capitalism is a failure, then what is the Alternative?

In the current political sphere along its rhetorical voyage, we all can meet face to face with buzzwords such as Capitalism,...
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Libra may be the end for Facebook – Part I

In 2019, Facebook crossed a red line. The company announced the Libra project. Before digging into Libra, let’s get a very...
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The Shift Towards Sustainable Pensions: How Plan Beneficiaries are Sha...

Many institutional investors are addressing global issues by making allocations into ‘sustainable investments’. Sustainable investing is an umbrella term referring to...
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Three Simple Questions (And One Difficult One) To Ask Before Investing...

There has never been a better time to be learning about blockchain. Between the rate of growth amongst currencies like Bitcoin...
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Party Round? When Startups Should And Shouldn’t Take It

Party rounds, or mass syndication, is when a startup raises from multiple investors, none of which individually has a large enough...
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Climbing the Liquidity Ladder

Big things are happening with private market liquidity. Just as the tokenization fad crashed and burned, a much bigger wave of...
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ESG Investing Has a Data Problem — Here’s Why That Matters

Sustainable ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing requires, by its very definition, a robust and sensible approach. No investment that purports...
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Thoughts on the Long Term Winner

Today we are going to discuss how the long term survivability of a prospective crypto asset is the single best indicator...
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Can Any Formula Tell You How Much Money To Save?

We are led to believe that there is a way to properly prepare for any financial disaster. But in the current...
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